THE FIRST LESSON Colossians 3:1-11
THE SECOND LESSON Luke 12:13-21
SERMON "Affluenza: The Problem of Abundance"
Worship Notes
Welcome to worship at Westminster on this the Tenth Sunday after Pentecost. During these summer weeks, and throughout the Pentecost season, we sustain a purposeful focus on God's gift of the Holy Spirit and on its presence at work within and through us.
In worship today, we reflect on the abundance of God's grace, which affords us with everything we need. Our response to that abundance, and how we choose to use the spiritual and tangible gifts entrusted to us by God, involves an act of faith. Yet it is God's great faithfulness that always acts first through grace and it is that same grace that unites us together around the Lord's Table in the sacrament of communion.
In our central text this morning Jesus points to the difficulty of seeing the world in terms of scarcity, rather than abundance. As our first hymn states, "Father, whose bounty all creation shows..."; and our second hymn goes, "God whose giving knows no ending, from your rich and endless store."
You are invited to reflect on the abundance of God's love and grace today!
